[MlMt] Messages not marked read on open

[John Cooper]

On 1 Oct 2014, at 15:27, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

>> My preferences are set to mark messages read after 20 seconds. In 
>> every other mail program I've used, this setting applies only to the 
>> preview pane (Message View). However, when message view is off, and I 
>> double-click to open a message for viewing in a new window, the 
>> message is not marked read for 20 seconds. I can actually open a 
>> short email in a new window, read it, close it, and still have to 
>> mark it read manually. I'd prefer to have messages marked read as 
>> soon as I explicitly open them.
>
> There are lots of opinions on this subject: 
> http://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/402

No doubt, but in the ticket above, there is only one contrary opinion 
other than your own. :) And while I haven't taken a full survey, I'm 
sure that the behavior of Mail, Outlook, Entourage, Gmail and Eudora 
matches what I describe—and shouldn't these count as opinions of some 
weight?

> I cannot make the above the default behavior, but I might make it 
> optional at some point.
>
> Note that you can bind a key to get this behavior, e.g.:
>
> 	"o" =      ( "setTag:", "\\Seen", "openMessages:" );
> 	"\U000A" = ( "setTag:", "\\Seen", "openMessages:" ); // Return
> 	"\U000D" = ( "setTag:", "\\Seen", "openMessages:" ); // Enter
>
> But you cannot override the double-click behavior.

Thank you for the workaround. I'll set that and train myself to use a 
keybinding instead of my mouse in MailMate.

John
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